YO GEORGIANS! :)

[sue25]

Dog days of summer in August. To hot, to humid, to buggy. School starts Monday traffic will be up, work starts all over again but on the horizon is light, peace, new beginnings and the blessing of another day.

 

[brucifer]

It's day 21 for the Orpington hatching eggs and woke up to two Jubilee chicks playing Bocce ball with their eggmates. The two chicks look strong, and several other eggs have pipped, so hoping for a good hatch.

 

[lpatelski]

People were talking about candling the eggs all the time, but you don't want to do that because it releases too much heat and moisture from the incubator so you should really only candle on certain dates. I do candle, but it is just not all the time. This was a huge effort on my part because I wanted to candle every day.

I candle every six days as I put the new groups into the incubator and take them out to the Hatcher at day 18. Candling at day 6,12,18.

 

[lpatelski]

Wish I had an incubator. by the time they would hatch I'd be ready for them.

you can always make an incubator...

 

[Tabasco Jack]

@brucifer I know a really nice place for sale.

 

[sue25]

you can always make an incubator...View attachment 1103152 View attachment 1103156 View attachment 1103157

This is very interesting. Thanks

 

[brucifer]

@brucifer I know a really nice place for sale.

LOL! Jack, your place would be a dream! If we hit the lotto, we may come a knockin'.

 

[IrisChicken]

One of our Speckled Sussex chickens (both female, we believe) have almond shaped eyes but all other chickens we have don't. Is this normal or do we have a unique chicken?

 

[Lady Who]

I figured out how to record things and recorded coop dreams

 

[brucifer]

Very S-L-O-W hatch. Only three Jubilee Orps have hatched thus far. No Reds. No Mottled.

I calibrated the LG bator, and it's running about 1.5ºF below the digital display, so I expect a late hatch. Tomorrow should be a better hatching day.

On the positive side of things, I discovered today that one of Lisa's Paint Silkie Sizzles is a girl! She done laid an egg! Yuk! Yuk! Yuk! She has wattles and a comb, and she's a little nipper, so we thought for sure she way a male. Then again, she has never crowed, and she does make a very girly-sounding "buk! buk! buk! bukaaaaaaak!" when she's distressed. She's small even by Silkie standards, but she laid a larger-than-usual white egg for such a teeny tiny bantam.

BTW, @sue25 , your little Partridge Silke girl just started laying. She lays nice light-cream-colored eggs. She's a real sweetheart!